Help Book Village NPC with 100 volunteers for assisting children in learning to read on our app.

Help Book Village NPC with 100 volunteers for assisting children in learning to read on our app.

Here's a little more info about this opportunity...

81% South African children cannot read for meaning by the end of Grade 4. Children need individual support and the human connection to learn to read, and in low-income schools in South Africa they do not receive this due to terrible overcrowding. Often there are over 60 children in a class and only one teacher. We are trying to help end this reading crisis. We have developed an online tutoring platform that enables children to learn to read by connecting them to volunteer tutors and a levelled reading series by Oxford University Press. This is where you come in. Reading sessions are a maximum of 30 minutes and you will be directly connected to the good you are doing. Think of it as an ubering system - you login to the app, you see there are learners waiting in the lobby, you click on pair with a learner, and you are then connected to a child for a one-on-one session. You will support them either through an assessment where you will mark if they get the words right or wrong, or a book session where you will listen to them read, assist where needed and ask questions throughout to encourage comprehension and thinking skills. We encourage all tutors to do at least one session a week as we have seen that in just 10 sessions learners can make measurable progress in their reading abilities. We work during school hours from 8am - 2pm (SAST) and we work with children in Grades 1-3. You will be required to do a 1 hour training session in order to learn how to use the app and how to assist the learners, and you will need to fill in a volunteer contract and provide a form of ID as part of our standard safety and screening procedures. If you can read, you can help. Our app is web based and so all you need is a device and stable internet and then you can help a child learn to read from anywhere in the world! We would love to have you as part of our awesome volunteer community. Come help us make a difference and change lives!